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HAY-LOADING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettersl Patent No. 294,698, dated March 4, 1884.

Application filed April 11, 1G51. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, MARTIN M. SoRNBoRGnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Millville, in t-he county of Shasta and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay Loading `Machines; and I do hereby declare that the i'ollowing is a full, clear, and eXact description of the same, which will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac eompanying drawings, which form a part of this speciiication, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved hay-loading machine. Fig. 2 is a top View. Fig. 3 is an end view, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section.

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My invention has relation to that class of hay-loaders which may be attached to the rear end of a wagon; and it consists in the improved Vconstruction and combination of parts of such the forward ends of these tracks in three pairs of inclined track-beams, F F, G G, andfH H, likewise one above the other. The rear rends ofthe upper horizontal track-beams are curved upward and form a fourth horizontal track, I I, which is open at the top, the under sides of each pair ofthe other track-beams forming guides for the rollers traveling` upon the tracks below. The two lower pairs of track-beams eX- tend farther upward than the upper pair, and the middle pair of the inclined track-beams are provided near the ends of the upper beams with two short inclined switch-sections, J J, which ascend from the middle track to the uppermost track, which has at the point where the short sections connect with them a hinged pair. of track-sections, K K, Swingin g upward,

allowing rollers ascending the switch-sections to pass from the middle track to the uppermost track, while they will by their own weight fall back into position after the rollers have passed up upon the uppermost track, allow- Y forming an inclined slat floor, M, ruiming parallel with the tracks below and between them, and drags upon the ground with its lower end. Arake, N, having spring-teeth O, of the usual construction, and having rollers l? upon the ends of its head Q, travels with its rollers upon the middle track, and has two or more forwardlyprojecting bars, which are hinged to the rear end of a carriage-frame, R, having four (or more or less) rollers, S, which travel upon the lowest track. Two ropes or chains, T, are attached to the front end of this carriage, and pass over two pulleys, U U, journaled at the upper ends of the lowest and middle inclined track-beams, and from these pulleys pass to a horizontal transverse windlass, V, to which they areattached and around the ends of which they wind, while a rope, NV, is attached to a drum, X, upon the middle of the windlass, and of a larger. diameter than the same, and winds upon the saine, passing over a pulley, Y, journaled upon the front end of the frame, and has a whii'lietree attached to its free end, to which a draft-animal may be hitched, which, in pulling the rope, will unwind it, revolving the windlass and winding the ropes upon the ends of the same. In this manner, after a suilicient quantity of hay has been gathered by the rake, the draft animal may be started, winding the ropes upon the ends oi' the windlass, which will draw the carriage and the rake upward, the ends of the rake-teeth bearing upon the upper side of the inclined slat iioor, drawing the hay upward. When, now, the rollers upon the rake-head arrive tothe inclined track-sections, they will ascend the same, raising the switch-sections and raising the rake, which will dump the load of hay upon the wagon, when the draft-rope may be released, and the carriage and rake will descend by its own weight, unwindin g the IOO two elevator-ropes and winding the draft-rope, the rollers upon the rake-head traveling upon the uppermost track, holding the rake out of the way for the hay, which possibly may have remained upon thc inclined slat iloor or at its upper end, and traveling upon the uppermost horizontal track, passing down over the curved ends, down upon the middle track between it and the uppermost of the three tracks, when the same operation may bc repeated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure bv Letters llatent of the United Statesl.. The combinati-on oi a pair ol' horizontal and upwardly-inchned trackbeams, a pair ol' horizontal and upwardly-inclined track-beams placed above the former, a pair of upwardlyinclined switch-sections leadiugirom the latter track-beams to a track above them, a pair ol' horizontal and upwardly-incl ined track-beams placed above the second pair, and constructed with a pair of hinged track-sections near their upper ends, resting upon the upper ends of the inclined switch-sections ol' the track below, a carriage having rollers Aat its sides traveling in the lowest track, a rake hinged to the rear end of the carriage, and having` rollers at the end of its head traveling` upon the middle and i upon its ends, and having means at its cud to e the upper tracks, and means i'or elevating it,

as and i'or the purpose shown and set i'orth.

2. The combination ol` a triple track, horizontal at its lower end and upwardl)7 inclined at its other end, upwardly-inclincd switchsections leading from near the end ol' the middle track tothe upper track, hinged track` sections i'orming parts oi' the upper track, as

described, a traveling rake consisting of a earriage having rollers traveling upon the lowest track, and a rake having rollers upon the ends ol` its head traveling upon the middle and upper tracks, and hinged to the carriage, and an inclined slat iloor hinged under the tracks at the point below the switclrsections, as and l'or the purpose shown and set forth.

$3. A hay loader consisting of a 'frame mounted upon wheels, a triple track consisting of a lower horizontal portion and an upper inclined portion, ulnvardlyinclined switchsections and hinged switch-rails leading from the middle to the uppermost track-beams, as described, aslat iloor hinged under the tracks below the switch-sections, a carriage having rollers traveling upon thc lowest track, a rake hinged to its rear end, and provided with rollers upon the ends ol' its head traveling upon the middle and upper tracks, a windlass having a drum of a larger diameter upon its middle, and journalcd at the forward end ot the frame, pulleys journalcd at the upper ends of the inclined tracks, ropes attached to the 'l'orward end of the carriage, passing over the pulleys and winding upon the ends of the windlass, and a rope winding upon the drum of the windlass in the opposite direction to the ropes be attached to draft-power, all constructed and arranged to operate as and i'or the purpose shown and set forth.

MARTIN M. SORBORH lili. Witnesses:

H. K. Sxnoxns, ("frmn mcs GREEN. 

